Dr. Erica Schwartz will be the first Black woman to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promising that she will show “radical transparency and unwavering scientific integrity” in the ...

Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have been watching a lot of John Oliver lately, and I admit that writing this week’s issue feels a ...

A year after a shooting at the CDC, a half-dozen current and former staff who were on campus during the shooting or who dealt ...

Schwartz takes command of a public health agency that has lost thousands of employees amid layoffs, resignations and ...

The Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, placing her in charge ...

On Wednesday the U.S. Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz to head the U.S.. Her confirmation gives the nation’s top public health ...

The US Senate voted 51-44 on Wednesday to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Senate voted in favor of Dr. Erica Schwartz, who was deputy surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Dr. Schwartz, a deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration, has publicly supported childhood vaccines.

The CDC reports nearly 4,200 cases of cyclosporiasis have occurred across more than 41 states since May 1. A voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce products from supplier Taylor Farms has been issued in ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday the cyclosporiasis outbreak is "under control" and claimed last year's federal budget cuts had no impact on the investigation. The CDC is now reporting ...